Cleveland sits next to Lake Erie, one of North America's Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

All this, of course, was fuelled by I mentioned it already--a transportation revolution symbolized by the Erie Canal, finished in 1825, which remained profitable all the way out into the 1880s.

当然,所有这些都是由于,我已经提过,1825开通的,伊利运河所带来的交通革命所导致的,这条运河直到十九世纪八十年代还在盈利

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The worst fire disaster happened on Lake Erie in eighteen fifty.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

The Great Lakes are Michigan, Erie, Huron, Superior and Ontario.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

One of them - the Erie Canal - opened the West to commerce by connecting New York's Hudson River with the Great Lakes in the heartland.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29